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Evidence from satellite altimetry for small-scale convection in the mantle
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | McKenzie, D. P. Weissel, J. K. Parsons, B. Watts, A. B. Haxby, W. F. |
| Copyright Year | 1985 |
| Description | Small scale convection can be defined as that part of the mantle circulation in which upwellings and downwellings can occur beneath the lithosphere within the interiors of plates, in contrast to the large scale flow associated with plate motions where upwellings and downwellings occur at ridges and trenches. The two scales of convection will interact so that the form of the small scale convection will depend on how it arises within the large scale flow. Observations based on GEOS-3 and SEASAT altimetry suggest that small scale convection occurs in at least two different ways. |
| File Size | 124677 |
| Page Count | 2 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19860003410 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t7tn23k86 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1985-10-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Geophysics Convective Heat Transfer Upwelling Water Earth Mantle Seasat Satellites Topography Plates Tectonics Satellite Observation Ocean Bottom Geoids Geos 3 Satellite Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
